Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments, sentence 4
I'm such a numpty"; that night he wanted the ground to swallow him.
Who acts: I, Callum · What happens: be, want, swallow · To what, where: numpty, ground, Callum · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cringe that lasts: getting over embarrassing moments» of the reflection course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Callum), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 numpty | nsubj |
| 2 | 'm | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 numpty | cop |
| 3 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 numpty | det:predet |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 numpty | det |
| 5 | numpty | numpty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 numpty | punct |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 wanted | punct |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 night | det |
| 9 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wanted | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 wanted | nsubj |
| 11 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 numpty | parataxis |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wanted | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 swallow | mark |
| 15 | swallow | swallow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 ground | acl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swallow | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 numpty | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | such numpty | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | past | Callum | the ground | night | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot ground=Theme | |||
| 3 | swallow in a quote | to-infinitive | Callum not said here | Callum | vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:reflection:011-cringe-that-lasts-getting-over-embarrassing-moments.lesson:4.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.4.
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